While most fighting games rarely, if ever, have a story, Tekken actually has a story amidst of all the characters. All spoilers up to the end of Tekken 6 are unmarked.

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The Mishima Bloodline

For the most part, the main storyline revolves around the Mishima family. Put simply...they don't get along. Their story revolves around a struggle for control over the family's corporate and military empire, with the Devil Gene interfering with the proceedings.

Before Tekken 1:

Heihachi Mishima is the owner of a corporation called the Mishima Zaibatsu, which was formerly called the Tekken Zaibatsu and was run by Jinpachi Mishima, Heihachi's father and world renowned martial-artist, until Heihachi overthrew Jinpachi and claimed the Zaibatsu as his own due to Jinpachi's desire to steer the zaibatsu from warmongering and profit into focusing onto martial arts training. Heihachi had a beautiful wife known as Kazumi Mishima, however, he killed her upon discovering her dark secret - she carries a genetic defect of supernatural origin known as the Devil Gene, which can cause her to transform into a demonic entity with superhuman strength. That and Kazumi revealing that the reason why she married him in the first place was to get closer to him and kill Heihachi due to a prophecy that he would cause a war that will claim many lives. Heihachi also has a son called Kazuya, whom he mistreats because he believes his son is weak due to his son's kind and loving nature that came with growing up with a loving treatment from his grandfather Jinpachi in addition of his growing bitterness towards Kazumi that attempted against his life and believing that her supernatural self was inherited to Kazuya. Growing tired of his son's kindness, Heihachi takes his son to a nearby cliff and declares that if Kazuya were truly his son and able enough to take the Mishima Zaibatsu, he would survive the fall and climb back up. Heihachi tosses his son off a cliffto test a theory that if Kazuya inherited Kazumi's Devil Gene, he would survive the fall. True to Heihachi's prediction, Kazuya survives, but only thanks to the Devil Gene he inherited from his mother. To further spite his son, Heihachi adopts a Chinese orphan named Lee Chaolan and raises him only to be a rival to Kazuya, nothing more. As Kazuya grew older, he participated in many martial arts championships, gained an undefeated streak, only to have his record blemished in a draw against Paul Phoenix. Recognizing the growth in strength in Kazuya, Heihachi announced the very first King of Iron Fist Tournament.

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After the announcement of the tournament, many people have entered, each with their own goal in mind and the strive to win, Kazuya being one of them. After cutting through many of the participants, Paul Phoenix and Lee Chaolan being amongst them, Kazuya makes it to the final round, with his father as the final opponent. After defeating Heihachi, Kazuya tosses Heihachi off the same cliff the former was tossed in as a child. The tournament concludes as Kazuya is now the new King of Iron Fist and the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu and it seems as though all is well, right?

Tekken 2:

After Heihachi's defeat, Kazuya is now the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu. With absolute power in his hand, Kazuya goes on to inflict even more unspeakable horrors, marking his deeds even worse as when Heihachi ran the corporation. During Kazuya's reign of terror, it is revealed that Heihachi has survived the fall from the previous tournament and has been training for the day he finally defeats Kazuya and reclaims what he had lost. Hearing that his father has returned, Kazuya announces the second King of Iron Fist tournament to wipe the floor with anyone foolish enough to stand in his way. During the tournament, Kazuya encounters a woman called Jun Kazama, and unwittingly falls for her and impregnates her with his unborn son, Jin. After some time, Heihachi eventually makes it to the final round and battles Kazuya once more. Kazuya is defeated due to his internal struggle betweenhis evil side Devil, and his good side Angel, which appeared after meeting Jun. Kazuya then transforms into his Devil form and does battle with Heihachi for one last time. Kazuya is defeated by Heihachi and to make sure he stays dead, Heihachi tosses Kazuya into an erupting volcano.

During the whole tournament, Lee himself recognized Kazuya's power and pledged his loyalty to him, even as he plotted to backstab him and usurp his power. His plan failed when Heihachi became his opponent, and enraged with this betrayal, once he was crowned champion and retook the Zaibatsu, he expelled Lee. While at first he was consumed with desire of vengeance, Lee managed to control his temper and retreated to Bahamas, eventually founding the Violet Corporation, but staying away from battle for a very long time.

Tekken 3:

Fifteen years after the conclusion of the 2nd King of Iron Fist Tournament, Jun Kazama is found living with her son, Jin Kazama. Sensing that something is wrong, Jun tells Jin that should anything ever happen to her, Jin should go to his dear old grandfather, Heihachi Mishima. Speaking of Heihachi, he has organized his own team, the Tekken Force, an organization which has helped protect the Mishima Zaibatsu and has led to world peace. However, Heihachi has heard rumors of a being called Ogre after a squadron of Tekken Force soldiers has been wiped out by said being. With Ogre on his mind, he formulates a plan to capture Ogre and of course, take over the world. On Jin's 15th birthday, Ogre arrives and Jun tells Jin to run away, but against his mother's pleas, battles Ogre, only to be swatted away and knocked unconscious. Soon after, Jin wakes up to find his home completely wrecked and his mother nowhere in sight. Following his mother's wishes, Jin finds Heihachi, tells him everything that has happened and asks to be trained by him so that he can avenge his mother, and is taken in by his dear old grandfather.

At the age of 19, Jin has became an impressive martial arts fighter thanks to his grandfather's training. Heihachi then announces the Third King of Iron Fist tournament so he can lure out Ogre while Jin enters to take down Ogre once and for all, all the while unaware of his grandfather's secret motives. Jin cuts through many opponents, one of them being his rival Hwoarang, whom Jin had defeated during Heihachi's tutelage and is now itching for a grudge match. Jin arrives at Ogre's temple and before Jin can face Ogre, he faces off against his grandfather. Heihachi battles Jin so that he can test his skills and during the battle, Heihachi noticed that Jin was starting to show dangerous amounts of power, the same amounts Jin's father Kazuya had. Jin defeats Heihachi and advances onwards still unaware of what lies ahead. After Paul Phoenix, a contender of the previous two tournaments, defeats Ogre, he pridefully leaves the tournament, unknowing that the tournament still continued after his sudden departure and Ogre had transformed into a much more beastly form. Jin arrives and takes down True Ogre with all the fury he could muster. After True Ogre's defeat, Jin is then gunned down by the Tekken Force led by Heihachi and since Ogre is gone, Heihachi no longer needs Jin for his own ends and blasts Jin in the head. Not long after, one of Heihachi's men is thrown across the room, Heihachi bearing witness to the birth of Devil Jin, due to the Devil gene Jin inherited from his father Kazuya. Jin strikes down Heihachi one last time and flies off into the night, Heihachi in shock and awe of the recent events.

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G Corporation, a rival company to the Mishima Zaibatsu, had discovered Kazuya's burned corpse only a few days after the incident. Through the use of cutting edge biotechnology, he was resurrected. Out of gratitude, Kazuya allies himself with G Corporation, voluntarily subjecting himself to experiments in order to study the Devil Gene. He remained the company's greatest secret for 20 years until one day, when the lab was suddenly attacked by members of Heihachi's Tekken Force, in the hopes of stealing their secrets. Kazuya is discovered by members of the Tekken Force, but he effortlessly slaughters them all with his newfound control over the Devil.

Meanwhile, Jin Kazama has been training in a karate dojo in Australia. Ever since the day Heihachi betrayed him, Jin has hated everything involving the Mishima bloodline, and has resolved to end his curse by killing Heihachi. He has unlearned the Mishima-ryu style, and learned traditional karate instead.

It is around this time that new invitations for the King of Iron Fist Tournament are sent out.

Kazuya and Jin proceed through their opponents, until the two are the only remaining finalists. Jin met up with his rival Hwoarang who demanded a rematch, but the Korean Army apprehended him for abandoning the country. In the meantime, this particular tournament re-ignited Lee Chaolan's passion for fighting thus he returned to the tournament under the disguise 'Violet', as well as to promote his fighting robot, Combot. However, Lee was shocked to see Kazuya's return, thus lost his concentration and costed him the match.

Before the match between Kazuya and Jin, however, Jin is captured and taken to the Mishima Zaibatsu's Hon-maru compound. Winning be default, Kazuya confronts Heihachi but loses to him. Heihachi does not kill him, but instead takes Kazuya to Hon-maru to meet his son.

Kazuya and Heihachi arrive at Hon-maru, where Jin is chained with bonds that have been specially designed to nullify his Devil powers. Kazuya immediately turns into Devil upon seeing Jin, explaining that a fragment of itself split off from Kazuya moments before he was burned to death by the volcano, and implanted itself within Jin. After effortlessly knocking Heihachi away, Devil moves towards Jin to take its power back, but Kazuya regains control, and states that he has now merged himself with Devil completely by unifying their powers. Kazuya now has full control of the Devil, and can unleash it at will.

Kazuya proceeds to fight Jin, but Jin gets the upper hand and defeats his father. Heihachi returns to take Jin's power for himself, but Jin effortlessly defeats him too. Poised to finally kill his father and grandfather, Jin transforms into Devil Jin and readies himself to get rid of Heihachi first, but he sees a vision of his mother Jun, and drops Heihachi.

"Thank my mother, Jun Kazama."

With those words, Jin flies off into the night, leaving Kazuya and Heihachi unconscious within the Hon-maru temple.

Tekken 5

Shortly after Jin's departure, an army of Jack robots surround the Hon-Maru temple to eliminate both remaining Mishimas. Kazuya and Heihachi fought together back-to-back for survival, but eventually, Kazuya betrayed Heihachi and tossed him to be dogpiled by Jack robots that executed a sequence of mass self destruct while Kazuya fled by transforming into the Devil. The Hon-maru explosion was witnessed by the ninja Raven and declared that "Heihachi Mishima is dead." Although unknown to Raven, Heihachi was instead thrown far away and survived, but he was unconscious for a very long time.

Meanwhile, with Heihachi's absence, the Mishima Zaibatsu was in a vacuum of power, but all of the sudden, someone took over. The explosion of Hon-maru released the imprisoned Jinpachi Mishima, but in his time of imprisonment, he became possessed with a dark power similar with the Devil. With what remains of his good heart, he used his reclamation of his old Zaibatsu to announce the fifth King of Iron Fist Tournament, and hoped that someone strong will be able to put him out of misery.

Amongst the participants were Kazuya and Jin. Kazuya entered in order to find out if the Zaibatsu was the ones sending the Jacks to kill him. But to his surprise, it wasn't the Zaibatsu, but the very same group that resurrected him: the G Corporation. Noticing this, Kazuya lost interest and dropped out of the tournament to exact his vengeance over this treachery, letting Jin advance to the finals. His intention was to eliminate the cursed bloodline of Mishima and he defeated Jinpachi.

And even the Tekken Force began to question Jin's methods and decided to rebel secretly. They are led by a charismatic man named Lars Alexandersson, bastard son of Heihachi. During one of his raids, he stumbled upon Alisa Boskonovitch, a robot based on the daughter of Dr. Geppeto Boskonovitch, and took her as his friend. They grew close as they uncover about the whole war between the Zaibatsu and the G Corporation... until Lars finally confronted Jin atop of his throne...

What was formerly a battle Lars could win was turned upside down when Jin reveals that Alisa is programmed to spy on his movement and had her turn against him. Fortunately, Lars was saved by Raven, who took him to a desert area, a ruins of an ancient God. Jin and Kazuya headed there, and in there, Lars witnessed the appearance of the progenitor of the Devil Gene, Azazel. Lars seemingly defeated him, but while exiting, he was ambushed by Jin and Alisa.

With Jin gone, the Zaibatsu would require another reformation, something that would be taken care of by Jin's bodyguard, Nina Williams. Alisa was successfully repaired by Lee Chaolan (who lent his aid to Lars beforehand) and Lars seemed to return to his duties as a Tekken Force soldier. However, much to Raven's surprise, it seemed that Jin survived... again.

Tekken 7

With Jin missing, the Mishima Zaibatsu was in disarray with the lack of leader, with Nina only managing to keep order at bay as acting leader. It was at that time Heihachi re-emerged from his hiding spot and reclaimed the leadership of the Zaibatsu by force. Once he announced his return to the world, once again he announced the next King of Iron Fist Tournament with an extra plan: Reveal Kazuya's devil nature so the people would lose trust against the G Corporation for being led by the Devil itself. He also managed to obtain the services of an Italian Exorcist, Claudio Serafino, to hunt down the missing Jin, but he noticed another mystery man within Jin's vicinity at Middle East.

Jin managed to escape his pursuers from Mishima Zaibatsu in Saudi Arabia, until suddenly Lars came to rescue him, wanting to use him to put a stop to all the fighting. Meanwhile, at Violet Corps, Alisa recovered her memories and helped Lee fend off assailants from the Mishima Zaibatsu. Turns out that in the meantime, Lee has been using his corporation to gather deserters from the Zaibatsu. Eventually, Lee allowed Alisa to have a heartful reunion with Lars, but just shortly afterwards, the Mishima Zaibatsu under Nina assaulted their base trying to recapture the unconscious Jin. Thanks to Lee's cunning, they managed to escape and secure Jin while wiping out the task force.

Meanwhile, Heihachi came under attack by a mysterious fighter, a practitioner of the arts of Satsui no Hadou, Akuma, who was once saved by Kazumi and intending to repay the debt by killing Heihachi and later Kazuya. The battle caused untold destruction and Heihachi survived it. He then had a change in plan, ordering the Zaibatsu to fake his death and cancelling the aforementioned King of Iron Fist Tournament. When Akuma approached the G Corporation headquarters, Kazuya allowed him to face him at the rooftop. Akuma's might forced Kazuya to transform into Devil, but unbeknownst to them, Heihachi used a satellite feed to take pictures of Kazuya's Devil form. Once that's done, he sent a satellite beam right into where Kazuya and Akuma fought, then spread the pictures to the world.

The attack didn't kill Kazuya, but with the pictures leaked, the G Corporation started to lose credibility to the public. Kazuya retaliated by shooting a laser beam to the satellite, which caused it to fall down to Earth, caused collateral damage and the public blamed the Mishima Zaibatsu once again, ruining Heihachi's plan. Enraged at this, Heihachi arranged one final battle spot to settle the feud once and for all with Kazuya, but still had time to accept an interview to a reporter about his past life.

Within the Devil's Pit volcano, Heihachi and Kazuya had one final showdown that had them fight for their life, only one would walk out of this fight alive. Even if Kazuya used all of the might of the Devil, Heihachi still brushed them off and forced him to revert back to human. However, at this point, both of them are nearing their limits. Remembering all the atrocities Heihachi did to him and his oath to take everything back, Kazuya mustered one final punch, which surprisingly killed Heihachi, proving that he's past his own limit.

Just to be sure, Kazuya tossed Heihachi into the volcano just like Heihachi did to him after the second King of Iron Fist Tournament. Kazuya was very sure that for a normal human like Heihachi, he couldn't cheat death and with the Mishima Zaibatsu losing support, no one would seek him. Kazuya ended everything with the one word Heihachi used to utter: "Fighting is only a matter of who's standing in the end. Nothing else." Shortly afterwards, Kazuya was attacked by Akuma again, but Kazuya showed no signs of fatigue and retaliated.

Meanwhile, with the world still in chaos without Heihachi, Jin has finally regained his consciousness and ready to finish what he started, to save the world from the hell he brought it to. With Lars, Alisa and Lee backing him, Jin swore that he would finish the fight with Kazuya.

Tekken 3

Years passed, and tragedy once again struck, this time permanently. King was attacked by the fighting God Ogre and was slain. The children were distraught with the death of their hero, but a young man from the same orphanage refused to see the legacy of King end in tragedy. He met up with the one he knew could help, Armor King, and asked to be trained to succeed the old King. While the young man had to struggle to win back the crowd as the successor, he eventually succeeded, and King II is born, carrying the legacy of the old.

When he finally became a great wrestler on his own, Armor King revealed to him about Ogre, the death of the first King, and the upcoming third King of Iron Fist Tournament. King II entered in order to avenge his idol. Although King II did not win, there was a sense of satisfaction from the numerous matches he endured and the fact that regardless if he lost, Ogre was destroyed and King I's death would be avenged.

Tekken 4

And yet, another tragedy passed in a few years after. One day, Armor King was visiting a bar in Australia, and came across a bar brawl initiated by a Vale Tudo fighter, Craig Marduk. Trying to dissuade the man out of his overconfidence and rudeness, Armor King ended up fighting the man, but age caught up to him and Armor King was killed. However, as a consequence for Armor King I's murder, Marduk was convicted to ten years in prison for second-hand manslaughter. However, one day, he was released by a mysterious benefactor and was told to enter the Fourth King of Iron Fist Tournament. He entered the tournament to meet this benefactor...

Tekken 5

What King II failed to realize was that Marduk's pride was hurt badly and once he recovered, he sought revenge. After training himself, Marduk donned a black jaguar mask and began interrupting various matches brutally while issuing challenges to King II. In order to clean up his master's legacy, King II decided to enter the fifth tournament to end the feud with Marduk once and for all. In spite of the warnings of his friend, Julia Chang, King II was still adamant in fighting Marduk, but he had another plan in mind. Once he fought Marduk, he defeated him fair and square, and lent his hand to Marduk like a true sportsman.Motivated by this kindness, Marduk accepted defeat and started to clean up his ways. But this was not the end...

Afterwards, Marduk was suddenly assaulted by a mysterious man that was dressed like the man he killed: Armor King. King II also encountered this man, but was instead beaten down with techniques that looked similar to his...

Tekken 6

After recuperating from the assaults and hearing of the sixth tournament, King II and Marduk decided to enter the tournament as a tag team and uncover the mystery, as the same Armor King-like man also entered. During the whole fiasco, King II investigated this new Armor King's locker room and found a shocking piece of evidence... a portrait of TWO Armor Kings!? Meanwhile, to make sure that he wasn't seeing a zombie, Marduk was forced to dig up Armor King's grave and see if the corpse was still there. To Marduk's shock, the corpse was still in place, and the same Armor King stood in front of him, just as King II entered the scene with this revelation.

Tekken 7

As promised, Armor King II attacked Marduk again to avenge his brother for good. What he didn't realize was that Marduk gave a very fierce fight in return that both of them were horribly injured as a result and were put to a hospital. It fell to King II to pay the bills of both, and it wasn't an exactly cheap price. In addition of this, the war caused by the Mishima Zaibatsu caused many damages that the orphanage he takes care of took damage and required more money to pay the bill as well. King's only answer for this is the next King of Iron Fist Tournament, but seeing that Heihachi cancelled it for his plan against Kazuya, it seemed that King will have to find another way. At the very least, his history with the new Armor King and Marduk has allowed him to learn some new wrestling moves in addition to Vale Tudo moves.

The Williams Sisters

Another key side story in the Tekken lore is that of Nina and Anna Williams, two Irish sisters who, like the Mishimas, have had it out for each other for the longest time. Their storyline ties into that of the Mishimas much more than King's did, but it still manages to remain it's own for the most part. Joining them later is the boxer Steve Fox, while he ran his own plot, his story is deeply tied to the sisters' story.

Tekken 1

Nina and Anna are the daughters of Richard Williams, a former assassin for the IRA. As his wife taught the girls aikido for self-defense purposes, he taught Nina assassination techniques when she was young, but neglected to teach them to Anna.

Around the time of the first game, Nina is kidnapped by an unknown assailant (though likely a mafia-type organisation), drugged, and commanded to assassinate Heihachi Mishima, the host of the Rave War series of tournaments leading up to the inaugural King of Iron Fist Tournament. She enters the tournament in search of Heihachi, while her sister Anna chooses to enter as soon as she discovers Nina has entered in order to settle a feud. However, Nina is unable to assassinate Heihachi, and Anna quickly snapped her out of her drug induced stupor.

Tekken 2

Shortly after the first tournament, Richard Williams mysteriously passes away. Neither Nina nor Anna know the cause of his death, but they both blame each other for it. Some time later, Nina receives a contract to assassinate Kazuya Mishima, who took over the Mishima Zaibatsu after dealing with Heihachi. As she's tracking him down, and fighting her way through the second tournament, Anna, having finally been taught assassination techniques, is hired by Kazuya to be his lead bodyguard. The sisters encounter each other just as Nina encounters Kazuya, and they proceed to come to blows with one another. Anna wins, and Nina finds herself captured by the Zaibatsu - but rather than killing her, Kazuya orders her to be used as a test subject for a cold sleep machine developed by Dr. Gepetto Bosconovitch, with the purpose of determining how long a living being can be preserved in cryogenic suspension. Upon hearing of this, Anna realises she couldn't bear to be alone for so long, and requests to be used as a test subject alongside Nina. The Zaibatsu accepts, and the sisters are both put into cold sleep and do not awake for nineteen years.

One year into the research, Bosconovitch uses Nina's egg cells to conceive a child through in vitro fertilisation (IVF). It is unclear if the baby was grown inside Nina's womb or that of a different woman, but the child, known to the Zaibatsu as NT-01 would grow up to become boxing prodigy Steve Fox. Kazuya orders for Steve to be used in experiments relating to the Devil Gene, but he quickly realises one of the scientists, Emma Kliesen, was getting too close to him. With both of them endangered, Emma chooses to leave the Zaibatsu and convince them that Steve had died, allowing her to transport him to an orphanage.

Tekken 3

Upon his awakening, Ogre senses high levels of power within the Mishima Zaibatsu, in search of a susceptible body to possess. This causes Nina and Anna to awaken from cryogenic suspension, and while Anna remains as she was before the experiment, Nina awakened with amnesia, and could not remember even having a sister. Ogre manages to turn Nina into his own mind slave, and forces her to kill Jin Kazama. She enters the third tournament in order to accomplish this, but fails.

After Jin defeats Ogre, Nina regains control over herself, but is still suffering from amnesia. Anna enlists Dr. Bosconovitch to help Nina regain her memories, in an attempt to make her remember who she was and prevent her from continuing her life as an emotionless killer, but to no avail. Anna then tries taking Nina to their father's grave, and though this causes her to partially remember her family, this still wasn't enough to keep her from denying who she truly was.

Tekken 4

Two years later, Nina, still unable to remember her past, accepts a contract from the Syndicate, an established criminal organisation, to assassinate the current middleweight boxing champion, Steve Fox, as payback for his refusal to throw a fight. She quickly discovers he will be entering The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, and enters in an attempt to track him down. Anna, however, does not enter the tournament, as she feels that all her efforts to help Nina have gone to waste, and she just wants to move on with her life.

After the tournament, Nina tracks Steve down to a hotel in Venice. Before she can prepare a shot, however, she receives new intel that states Steve was conceived as part of a cryogenics research project by the Mishima Zaibatsu - all but outright stating he was her son all along. She goes to prepare a shot anyway, but is overcome with emotion and is unable to bring herself to shoot him. It is then that Lei Wulong bursts into her room, starting a chase that would result in Nina and Steve meeting face to face for the first time. Steve protects Nina from Lei's attempts to gun her down - but is unable to determine why he did so.

Tekken 5

Thanks to the efforts of Lei, the Syndicate is brought to justice, leaving Nina with little to no purpose in life, and a whole lot of questions. She contacts Anna in an attempt to set the record straight, and she agrees to meet with her. But the second they catch sight of each other, Nina's memories come rushing back to her, and she opens fire. The sisters fight for days on end, but eventually come to a stalemate, and agree to settle their differences at the fifth tournament. When they encounter each other at the tournament, Nina swiftly defeats Anna, leaving her dissatisfied and vowing revenge.

Meanwhile, Steve discovers with the help of Lei that he was not only concieved through the cold sleep experiment, but used as a test subject for the Zaibatsu's Devil Gene research. Steve, left not at all happy with what they did to him, enters the fifth tournament determined to make them pay. And he eventually did - by breaking into one of the Zaibatsu's labs and destroying all of it's equipment, then burning the place down.

Tekken 6

After dealing with Anna, Nina is once again left without a set path to follow. It is then that Jin Kazama, now head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, offers her a job as a high ranking officer of the Tekken Force. Nina, not one for being selective with her employers, accepts the offer, and begins work immediately. Once Anna hears about this, however, she quickly decides to once again ally herself with Kazuya Mishima, who recently became the head of G Corporation - the only conglomerate powerful enough to rival the Zaibatsu in the midst of the war that has engulfed the globe.

It is implied by the events of Scenario Campaign that the two once again fought to a stalemate, but the actual events that transpired between the two during the sixth tournament are unknown. However, throughout Scenario Campaign, Nina is seen working closely with Jin and his other subordinate, Eddy Gordo. At the end, after Jin's supposed death, Nina explains to Lars that she knew of Jin's plan all along, and quickly departs from the area on one of the Zaibatsu's helicopters. However, after Heihachi regains control of the Zaibatsu, Nina is implied to have left the Tekken Force to continue work as an assassin.

As Nina and Anna are doing their dirty work for the Zaibatsu and G Corp, respectively, Steve seeks to get back into the swing of things with boxing. Unfortunately, the conflict between the Zaibatsu and G Corp has resulted in most of the noteworthy tournaments being cancelled, and he can't find any other tournaments to enter. However, Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law then come to him requesting he join them in their attempts to win the sixth tournament, and he accepts. Unfortunately for Steve, even the combined force of the three martial artists weren't enough to bring him the championship.

Eddy and Christie

The series resident Capoeira masters, Eddy Gordo and Christie Monteiro, also have a decently developed story.

Before Tekken 3

One fateful day, eleven years after the second tournament, a 19-year-old Eddy Gordo came home to find his father dying from a gunshot wound. His father had been spending years working to bring down a drug cartel in Brazil, but just as he got the evidence necessary to lock up the offenders, someone put a price on his head. Their house was broken into, and he was gunned down.

Mr. Gordo tells Eddy not to seek vengeance for his death, and tells him that the only way he can truly be safe from the people who murdered him would be to falsely turn himself in. Eddy agrees, mainly due to his lack of knowledge regarding what else he could do. He is sentenced to eight years in prison.

As he was doing time, however, a prison riot broke out. He feared the worst. But then, an old man appeared, and fought off the guards using the martial art of Capoeira. Mesmerised by his power, Eddy then asked the old man if he could teach him everything he knows. The old man agreed to do so on the grounds that he teach his young granddaughter Christie the martial art once he was released from prison.

Tekken 3

Upon his release, Eddy set out to get information on who murdered his father. He hears of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, and enters thinking the Mishima Zaibatsu will have some information on the murderer's identity.

Unfortunately, he is unable to win the tournament or gain sufficient information to track the murderer down. He then returns to Brazil, and proceeds to make good on the old man's request and train Christie the art of Capoeira. To his surprise, what took eight years for him to master only took two years for her.

Tekken 4

In a surprising turn of events, just as Christie completed her training, Eddy mysteriously disappeared. The only thing he left to her was a note saying, "Those responsible for my father's death must pay." Worrying for her master, she proceeded to search for him - with her only lead being the fourth tournament.

At some point between the third and fourth tournaments, Eddy discovered the identity of the man who killed his father. He broke into his house, and proceeded to interrogate him, demanding to know who called the hit. The drug baron pointed towards a set of photos on his table, revealing that the man he was making dealings with, and the man who put a price on his father's head was Kazuya Mishima, former head of the Mishima Zaibatsu.

Coincidentally, Christie eventually found herself up against Kazuya in the tournament, and lost to him. Christie returned home feeling low, but when she came home, she found that Eddy had returned and discovered the truth, as he said he would.

Tekken 5

Shortly after both Eddy and Christie returned home, Eddy's master was finally released from prison. Unfortunately, he had become very weak, and not healthy in the slightest. They rushed him to a hospital, and were told he was suffering from a terminal illness and only had six months to live. However, they were also told a cure would be possible using technology from the Mishima Zaibatsu, and so Eddy and Christie agreed to enter the fifth tournament to acquire the technology necessary to cure the old man.

It is implied they eventually came to a point where they had to square off with each other - Eddy insisting that he take care of business alone, and Christie getting agitated at the whole situation. It is unknown who advanced in the tournament, but canonically, neither of them won the tournament.

Tekken 6

After the fifth tournament ended, Eddy secretly had a conversation with the Zaibatsu's new leader, Jin Kazama, begging him to help his master in any way he can. Jin tells him that if he joins the Tekken Force and does his dirty work, he will look into the matter, as no cure is available at present. Eddy's master is then transferred to one of the Zaibatsu's medical facilities, and Eddy begins work with the Tekken Force immediately alongside fellow subordinate Nina Williams.

Meanwhile, Christie went home to realise that not only was Eddy missing again, but her grandfather as well. She tried contacting Eddy, but to no avail - and then contacted the hospital her grandfather was being treated at to discover he was transferred to the Zaibatsu facility. Feeling suspicious of the lengths Eddy has gone to to cure his master, she entered the sixth tournament to get answers.

Eddy and Christie's ending has Christie at her grandfather's grave, mourning his untimely demise. Eddy turns up, and Christie slaps him - knowing that he was conspiring with the Zaibatsu, and she was lied to. Eddy, left as nothing more than a shoulder for his student to cry on, decides that all the effort he went through was for naught - and breaks off his ties to the Tekken Force. However, it is unclear as to whether or not this ending is canon, and how exactly Christie found out Eddy was working with the Tekken Force, as it is never elaborated on in Scenario Campaign. That being said, this ending could very well be canon, as Jin's Heroic Sacrifice would probably cost Eddy his last chance at curing his master.

Tekken 7 & Tag Tournament 2

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is usually non-canon, but what happened afterwards for the two seemed connecting enough. This is the only time it will be mentioned.

Empty handed, Eddy returned to Brazil to the orphanage he ran with Christie, pretending like nothing happened. He definitely did not want any of the kids learning the things he did from serving the Zaibatsu and attempting to avenge his father from Kazuya. Life seemed to work normally, though he knew that Christie, despite acting like nothing happened, was still crushed with what he did before.

Eventually Eddy decided that there's about one thing he has left now that he has cut ties with the Mishima Zaibatsu: Vengeance against Kazuya for his father. Without telling his intention, Eddy left the orphanage and Brazil, but Christie caught on him leaving. Without telling his darker sides to the children, Christie pursued Eddy to a train station but failed to spot him as there were some people looking similar to him from behind. She ended up in a line to get onto the train where Eddy boarded, but while waiting, she saw a girl crying being left behind with her mother. This touched Christie's heart and she spent time with the girl to comfort her until her parents return, but by the time it happened, the train departed and Christie failed to reunite with Eddy. He also saw Christie chasing him with a concerned face, but Eddy sadly moved on, still thinking she's bitter at him and he didn't want to involve her in his vengeance after all.

With the Mishima Zaibatsu in chaos after Jin's disappearance, Eddy had more free time to pursue Kazuya, but then he was blocked by an unlikely opponent, an idol-turned-fighter and the current mascot of G Corporation, Lucky Chloe. Little did Eddy know that at that time, it wasn't just his father's honor at stake, but also his whole pride and integrity as a fighter. Because if he lose the fight, then Lucky Chloe would make him go through idol routine as her backup dancer, much to his embarrassment and humiliation. Should he win the fight, while Eddy still kept his fighter's pride, he still hasn't gotten information about Kazuya's whereabouts since Lucky Chloe misled him.

Paul and the Law Family

Paul Phoenix was at first considered a Rival character to Kazuya, but since he has no business with the Mishima clan war, he tends to hang out with another participant of the tournament, the Bruce Lee Clone chef Marshall Law. While these two remain comic reliefs, there is some sort of continuity within their story.

Tekken 1

As stated in the main story, Paul Phoenix is a mixed martial artist with a drive to become the strongest there is. He's also the only one who ever managed to fight Kazuya Mishima into a draw. Wanting to settle the score, Paul entered the first King of Iron Fist Tournament. Meanwhile, Marshall Law is a chef who is proficient in Jeet Kune Do, but he had a passion to build his own dojo with his own students. To gather the money for such dream, he entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament.

What is known is that Law loses the tournament, but it's not known who defeated him. Paul had a better performance, and also had a fierce fight with Heihachi's pet bear Kuma. While Paul at first treated it as normal, little did he know that this bear would haunt him for the rest of his fighting career. Unfortunately for Paul, this time Kazuya beat him fair and square instead of both of them ending in a draw.

But at the very least, in this tournament, Paul and Law met and became friends. And regardless of the outcome, the ninja Yoshimitsu ended up committing theft to the Mishima Zaibatsu to be distributed to the poor, one of them being Law and he had enough money to start his dojo, the Marshall Dojo.

Tekken 2

While Paul, devastated with his loss against Kazuya, trained to eventually win the rematch against Kazuya in the 2nd tournament, he ended up fighting against Kuma again, and at least won. However, Paul was once again defeated, this time by Heihachi Mishima.

On the other hand, tragedy struck Law. Kazuya sent a distraught Baek Doo-San to wreck Law's dojo, injuring some of his students. Enraged at this, Law entered the tournament to exact vengeance against Baek. He didn't win the tournament, but his objective was accomplished; Law defeated Baek. While he couldn't forgive Baek for hurting his students, he sympathized with Baek's situation, having wrecked with guilt of killing his father by accident. Law then resumed to run his dojo and expand the business venture of his restaurant, now named 'Marshall China'.

Tekken 3

Marshall's son, Forest Law, has grown into a fine young man and a talented martial artist as well, taking after his father. However, Marshall was very protective of Forrest, forbidding him to enter any fighting tournaments. Ever since the tournament, Paul has been friends with the Law family and so Forest knew him. When the third King of Iron Fist Tournament was announced, Paul decided to bring Forrest as his companion to the tournament against Marshall's consent, enraging him. Forest, however, saw this as a chance to prove that he's his own man, stepping out of his father's shadow.

While Forest had a good performance, he did not win the tournament. However, Paul had a very great streak, winning against many opponents, including the son of the bear he fought before, still named Kuma, and even reached the finals and defeated the Fighting God Ogre. Swelling with pride, Paul left the scene early, unaware that Ogre transformed into True Ogre and Jin Kazama had to pick up the slack and defeat it. With that, Paul returned home with Forest.

Unfortunately after this, Marshall forbade Forest to enter any other tournament. He's much more successful in this endeavor.

Tekken 4

Paul's victory over Ogre made him very boastful and he ended up bragging a lot, even after opening his own dojo. His personality, however, made him a rather unpopular person that people started calling him a phony to show their annoyance at his boasts that his dojo quickly became empty. Realizing that his overconfidence costed him, Paul decided to enter the fourth King of Iron Fist Tournament to show the world that he's the real deal.

Unfortunately for Paul, this time, the younger Kuma came back far stronger than it ever was and he caught off guard, Paul was beaten by said bear.

Law, however, had a more serious problem. Marshall China fell into financial troubles that Law ended up filling for bankruptcy. He went from a rich businessman to someone on the very verge of poverty. However, he saw his chance to redeem himself and save his family by entering the King of Iron Fist Tournament again. But unfortunately for Law, he failed to win, and his financial problems deepened, something that he would not be able to escape for a very long time.

Tekken 5

Distraught with his defeat against Kuma, Paul trained harder for an upcoming King of Iron Fist Tournament. However, in between this, he got into a motorcycle accident where Forest Law was taking a ride, sending Forest into the hospital. Meanwhile, in desperation to gather money to restore his business, Marshall started working illegally in Japan. News of his son's accident caught up to him and with more in stake, Law entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament to win enough money to save his son. Also perhaps feeling responsible for Forest's state, Paul hoped that if he won the tournament, he will share the money to his friend so Forest can be saved.

Paul had another match against Kuma, but while victorious, he was so exhausted that he couldn't advance further to the tournament. In the same time, not only Law lost, his illegal work activities were discovered and he was forcefully deported back home.

Tekken 6

In addition of his debt for Forest's state, Paul has accumulated several loans that he also has his financial problem. Knowing that entering alone would get him nowhere, he contacted Marshall again and asks if he's interested in teaming up. Since Marshall was still trying to pay the debt for Forest, he accepted the deal, but just to be sure, he thought that it would be better if it wasn't just the two of them as a team, but forming a team of three. Luckily for them, the boxer Steve Fox was free, so they invited him to team up. He accepted.

Unfortunately, even with the three of them combining their strengths, they still failed to win.

Tekken 7

While Marshall concerned himself to Forest's health, he didn't realize that the students in Marshall Dojo now started to feel dissatisfied and one by one quitted. With his son AND dojo in the line, Marshall knew that something needed to be done, at the very least, he'd need someone to look after the dojo while he concentrated on the debt. Paul volunteered to help, but remembering how it happened in the third tournament, Marshall refused his offer and sought someone else. Just then, he heard about a Chinese Kempo fighter of legendary status, Feng Wei. While he is a dangerous man, Marshall was getting desperate that he decided to check him out and see if he's worthy of running the dojo in his stead.

Unfortunately for Law, not only was the tournament cancelled, Feng proved to be something more than he bargained for: The Chinese martial artist was too fierce. To tame the beast, Paul also stepped in and the two friends combined their strengths to strike at Feng... which he got back up and thanks to his God Fist scroll, he displayed an enormous and utterly ferocious aura. Realizing that this is too much even for them, Paul and Law only had only one option: Run away before Feng brutalized them.

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